Originally Posted by wiggy

No problem Tomahawk, with liking your company....I would say you're a bit extreme, though....You're proud to drink the AA cool-aid but remember, by definition "to drink cool-aid" means to be unrealistic or slavish...unthinking in loyalty to a certain "brand"...But "brand" in this case is a group of management individuals who think it is appropriate to try to take away from you (pilots) as much as they can possibly get away with in bancruptcy...-that is their "job"....it is a simple equation, -in their view, the less you (pilots) make in compensation and benefits the better it is for that entity you profess to love so much..."American Airlines". -Your "job"is to fly and try to preserve your profession and lifestyle, -not agree whole-heartedly with those whose purpose in bancruptcy is to gut your profession...

The "cool-aid" term originates, of course, with the mass suicide of the Rev. Jim Jones group in Guyana back in 1978. It implies a brainwashed, syncophantic group who are unhealthily compliant...worshipful, with whatever their leadership wants. At least take a balanced view...It appears the vast majority of your fellow pilots disagree with your stance on this issue....that should tell you something...Either you are an insightful, prescient genius of airline economics and are acting on that unbiased knowledge....or...you disregard the very questionable necessity of destroying the benefits of your chosen career to the maximal extent possible, just because "somebody says so"...and that "somebody" happens to have "American Airlines" associated with his name. You give all the impressions that the latter, and not the former is true, Tomahawk. -Any extreme view or favoritism on any side is not only unhealthy, but is likely unrealistic and untrue.

Prior to Parker's offer, I would have been one of those saying that the AA pilots would never in a hundred years agree to merge with US/AW...with that whole labor/SLI mess. But how can it be that labor peace and an actual increase in pay/benefits could be considered viable in bancruptcy? At the very, very least, Tomahawk, it should tell you Horton is going after way more than is necessary.... not because he "loves" American Airlines...-but, simply because he "can".